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... Extension was designed to link the colleges' academic and research programs to societal needs through a public service function that includes extended education and technology transfer. Motivated by the desire to draw each state and territory into supporting science and education related to agriculture, land grant legislation created a federal-state partnership in agricultural research and technol
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... Land grant colleges' extension services are supported by federal, state, local government and private funds. Recently, state appropriations contributed 47 percent, federal funds contributed 29 percent, and local government and private support accounted for 24 percent.
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... Expanding global population, tightening global resource constraints, and environmental quality and food-safety concerns combine to underscore the need for continued improvement in the productivity and sustainability of the food and agricultural system and the quality and safety of its products. MAJOR The committee assessed the adaptations of each of the three functions of the LGCAs CONCLUSIONS AND teaching, research, and extension to the colleges' contemporary environment and the RECOMMENDATIONS u.s.
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... The historically Black 1890 colleges have played a significant role in training minority-group students in the food and agricultural sciences and related disciplines. Twenty-nine Native American colleges joined the land grant system through federal legislation in 1994; these "1994" colleges provide another potential avenue for increasing representation by a more diverse citizenry within food and agricultural science.
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... For this reason, the committee also strongly endorses special divisions of competitive grants programs for multidisciplinary research projects. Linkages should be developed among programs at non-USDA agencies and USDA-based extension programs (Chapter 5, Recommendation 161.
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... the use of formula funds and congressionally designated grants in allocating extramural funds to institutions. Consequently, the committee strongly sup ports full funding of the $500 million competitive grants program for food and agricul tural system research that was detailed in the 1989 NRC report entitled Investing in Research: A Proposal to Strengthen the Agricultural Food and Environmental System.
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... transferring to competitive grants programs a portion of the funds currently distributed to experiment station by formula and special grants; and 3. drawing on USDA intramural noncompetitive research funding.
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... Despite the growing role for private actors in disseminating agricultural information and technology, the committee concludes that public extension remains in the national interest because it helps ensure that research translates into practical applications with broad-based benefits; that information is widely accessible, accurate, and sciencebased; and that the problems and needs of all groups not just those who can afford to pay are relayed to research scientists and administrators. Nonetheless, extension can today pursue new and innovative approaches to the delivery of services to expand access and share benefits across political boundaries; explore multi-institutional and regional arrangements to increase efficiency and maintain service levels; improve linkages to university research and academic programs to strengthen the science base (for its nonfarm programs in particular)
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... Federal formula funds should be administered more efficiently (as one budget category rather than two) ; used more creatively to "jump start" programs and projects that more effectively integrate research, extension, and teaching, and the work of multiple disciplines; and their allocation among states and regions needs to be rethought, including improving the allocation and effectiveness of the 25 percent of formula research funds designated for regional projects.


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